Waste management
For your personal level-up, you will find links to in-depth materials and helpful tools here.
Guardians of Grub – Resources [14.2.2024] offers a comprehensive collection of information and tools on food waste reduction strategies including food waste tracker and calculator, food waste reduction plans and checklists.
Hotel kitchen – Toolkit [14.02.2024] offers a Food Waste Reduction Toolkit supported by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) with support from the Rockefeller Foundation.
A Guide to Food Waste Reduction in the Food Service Industry published by the Clean Technology Centre, Irleand. [14.02.2024]
Foodwaste Alliance (2020). Messy but Worth It! Lessons Learned from Fighting Food Waste [14.02.2024] Tips from foodservice manufacturers, grocers and restaurants for food waste reduction.
WWF (2021). A toolkit for Communication Food Waste to Guests [14.02.2024]
A toolkit that provides tools and resources for communicating with guests about food waste.
WWF & Greenview (2021). Hotel Waste Measurement Methodology v1.0 [15.08.2023] A methodology that enables hotels to set meaningful waste reduction goals and track their progress.
PATA (2019). Buffet – Building an Understanding for Food Excess in Tourism. [14.02.2024] A report that evaluates the opportunities for the industry and the Asia-Pacific region to tackling the issue of food waste.
IDB Invest (2020). Fighting Food Waste in the Tourism Sector Challenges and Opportunities for Latin America, the Caribbean, and Beyond. [14.2.2024] This study provides a good overview (including international data) on the topic of food waste I the tourism industry with a special focus on LAC.
Stop Food Waste [14.02.2024] Offers tips and resources on how to avoid food waste.
Redistribution of surplus food: examples of practices in the Member States published by the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste. [14.02.2024]
Lund-Durlacher, D., Gössling, S. (2020). An analysis of Austria’s food service sector in the context of climate change. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, Volume 34, June 2021, 100342 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jort.2020.100342
Thomas Cook and FUTOURIS e.V., Water Management Manual